skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The referenced Apple blog post[1] is pretty clear on what this feature does, and I wish the author at lapcatsoftware (as well as folks here) would have read it too, instead of taking the blog post as-is.

Apple has implemented homomorphic encryption[2], which they can use to compute distance metrics such as cosine similarity without revealing the original query/embedding to the server. In the case of photos, an on-device model is first used to detect if a landmark may be possibly present in the image, and then sends an encrypted embedding[3] for the image region containing said landmark, which is evaluated on the server using HE techniques and then the encrypted results are sent back.

I'm sure someone will come along and say Apple does none of these things; in which case, said commenter should probably not use Apple devices since, there is no reason to trust the toggles for "Enhanced Visual Search", and perhaps more importantly, the one for "Advanced Data Protection" either. However, I rarely see any other major company researching ML and HE together, so that alone is a sufficient positive indicator in my eyes.

(It's interesting that this is also being downvoted. Please go ahead, I can't stop you :P but please also write the parts that you disagree with. Thank you.)

[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

[3] https://mlr.cdn-apple.com/video/HE_Fig_3_PNNS_889f3a279c.m4v
I thought I remembered at least some of those replacements were class-action settlements and not Apple's good will.
Does seem like a white whale. Nearly all of the split keyboards want to do something different. I just want to stop scrunching my shoulders and space out my arms. Give me a fully traditional keyboard with all of the keys, just with a split down the middle.

My non-QMK keyboard has a horrendous home+end location, which I only realized after I acquired the thing. I did not realize how much I rely on those keys in normal programming.
I like Delhi's solution. They shoot cannons (unclear what's in them) all day to keep the birds away from the runway. This is probably super common, I just haven't seen it done elsewhere.
The battery of my diving torch is removable.. and of course doesn’t flood after 40 meters dives. This is a marketing excuse
You can use the word “miracle” without ascribing any metaphysical meaning. It obviously just means “an incredibly unlikely event” in this instance.
> I really am interested in the specific job I'm applying for.

Are you doing anything that shows and differentiates your interest isn’t the same as all the automated “interest”?

Ex: understand deeply some parts of the industry the company is in and how it can be improved w/tech? Or is it just “rust is cool”?
It's worth mentioning that Gateway is on the cutting block if the likely SLS cancellation happens during this incoming administration. As the entire reason for Gateway existing and being where it is is to act as a destination for SLS before the moon landing program was announced. It is where it is because of the relatively weak performance specifications of the SLS rocket preventing it from launching the Orion spacecraft into a low lunar orbit. SLS was also destined to launch several of the Gateway modules which would be impossible if its canceled.
I'd probably agree on Paris. Maybe Berlin. But Paris is probably a better choice for historical reasons.
It's 'easier' for some people but you lose GNU bash compatibility and it kinda underlines all of the issues with interactive only shell systems -- a lack of interoperability.

It's honestly a non-issue in the current year to learn zsh or tcsh
What do you think is the endgame of AI monetization other than marketing/spam in the AI output? Whether the SEO weasels get there before OpenAI themselves is largely irrelevant.
So, from a userland perspective, you are actually running Arch.
Ok I read the article carefully and you're right.
Looking at discussions about the current dire state of the white-collar job market — with thousands of applications per job posting and many months of job hunting, even for individuals with over 10 years of experience — it's hard to argue that we're not currently oversupplied.

Perhaps it's time to reconsider the "supply" side of the equation and do something with H1B.
Very cool that they ship with COSMIC as a DE option. Love using Clang as the compiler as well.
> the hairdryer is still able to do something to affect the electricity in my office.

This may indicate that your neutral line is undersized and/or damaged.
Isn’t the point of rigorous pilot training and selection to pick out those who will not be ‘cognitively overloaded’ by a dozen or two alarms at the same time, even under great stress?
Free as in beer only:

> Building Superbacked from source code or using official releases is allowed for personal use only.

> Unauthorized distribution or usage of this software (including its source code) is strictly prohibited.
>So doing any kind of analysis on pre-lottery data is pointless

Why is this pointless? It clearly shows the sheer amount of applications. I think it's a very important piece of data.
Why? The CSP policy isn't setting default-src or img-src. So image loads are allowed from everywhere.
Section 3.6 says that UI customizations such as language preferences are only exempt if they last for a session (no more than a few hours). Anything longer requires a cookie notice, though they do claim that a less prominent notice than a modal is acceptable.
it sounds to me like you think I've said something about the likelihood of a working system, and also that you think I am somehow in opposition to your second sentence, and require setting straight on the matter?

I admit I am at a loss how either of these suppositions could actually come to be, based on what I wrote, so I suppose I am mistaken.
In general, people have numerous reasons for posting fake ads for applicants.

I would say the signal-to-noise ratio is so low now, that entry level positions at any firm are impossible for domestic applicants.

* Contract rules in institutions that show your faculty interviewed at minimum 3 external applicants before tabling your preferences

* Corporate youth-employment tax credits that incentivize purging anyone over 32 to save money

* Immigration scams that need to show at least 5 domestic workers don't qualify for the company needs (usually list proprietary internal software and languages the public never hears about...)

* Staffing agencies posting nonexistent positions to run a lead-generation scheme, and legally exclude applicants from their product pool via a contract catch-22

* 10% of your towns population arrived in the past 3 years, and understandably will say/do anything to get their Visa secured

* Cons illegally farming data for their AI/LLM project, and various other scams

We need more investment bankers and CEOs that work for regular wages.

Fun Times =3
> There was no news article where I lived (or international) that predicted that resistance would only last weeks or months.

Then you must have not been paying attention.

A summary of those failed predictions: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-invasion-predictions-...

It's a roughly equal part of underestimating Ukrainians and overestimating Russians.

> Those that did make any prediction about the length of the war pointed towards modern wars like those in the middle east, which demonstrated that modern wars do not end suddenly regardless of what progress either side makes.

You mean like Crimea where the resistance never died down and was an active battlefield with daily activity of partisan groups? /s
The people who commit these crimes are not bounded between ranges like normal people.
Why didn't they land on water?!
Without reading any comments below, I want to praise the author for fighting fire-with-fire. From what I hear from my new colleagues and ones laid off, the landscape got pretty dystopian. HMs want to minimize their effort to 1% by happily renting LLM services which work 10% of the times and put up weird garbage(please record a 10min video to tell us why we should hire you, please also upload a cover letter that we clearly never read, please state your salary expectations, please choose a time slot when we can reach you but all time slots will be effective working hours only, please paste all your social media links) in addition uploading the résume+cover letter and then again pasting your top 10 skills and experiences. Then you get an auto reject 30min later or after a prolonged screening call only to see that opening taken down in 2 days and reposted after a week and repeat the same for months. What I hear from my friends and colleagues and insane all in all and I have zero sympathy for any HM and would be happy to start a new startup with LLMs to automate them away entirely.

Am I too cynical? Yes, because I do not like people who play games with desperate people.

(Now please all HR/HM downvote me because I told your truth).
Python or JavaScript programming.

These are not the best languages, but they are very approachable for beginners and open up so much optionality without too much difficulty.

Python gets you backend development (to use with your SQL), AI/ML, stats/science, simple desktop utilities, command line tools, and pygame for simple video games. Lots of things to explore.

JavaScript gets you web frontend, web backend (to use with your SQL), and gets you the "full stack" experience for writing web applications. There are also some game/3D tools where you can write little video games.

Either language would be a fantastic starting point into the world of programming. Both languages are in high demand, with JavaScript having a bit of a lead.

After you have one of these under your belt for a year, pick up the other one. Then reach for something totally different, like Rust, Swift, or Go. Something statically typed would be great. Make sure to inquire about what each language excels at - you're ultimately wanting to use the language to solve problems you're interested in.

Python and JavaScript are easy to pick up and fun to learn. There are a lot of interactive courses, and either language will serve you in your career no matter where it goes.

There are abundant materials and interactive courses for these languages, and some of them are even free. With your L&D budget you can probably sample several different ones or perhaps learn different aspects of each language.
I think you're drawing an artificial distinction here. Synthetic data generation is fundamentally an extension of augmentation. When OpenAI uses expert generated examples and curriculum based approaches, that's literally textbook augmentation methodology. The goal of augmentation has always been to improve model fit, and scaling is just one aspect of that.

Your concern about extrapolation is interesting but misses something key when we generate synthetic data through expert demonstration or guided curriculum, we're not trying to magically create capabilities beyond the training distribution. Instead, we're trying to better sample the actual distribution of problemsolving approaches humans use. This isn't extrapolation rather, better sampling of an existing, complex distribution!

i.e. if you think about the manifold hypothesis then we know real data lives on a lowerdimensional manifold, and good synthetic data helps fill those gaps. This naturally leads to better extrapolation, it's pretty well established at this point.

TBH I think you are characterizing this as some kind of blind data multiplication scheme, but it's much closer to curriculum learning you start with basic synthetic examples and gradually ramp up complexity. So it isn't whether synthetic data is "real" or not, but if it effectively helps map the underlying distribution and reasoning patterns.

Funny enough, your oil analogy actually supports the case for synthetic data refined petroleum is more useful than crude for specific purposes, just like well designed synthetic data can be more effective than raw internet text for certain learning objectives.
Regarding your second point, your own source says that none of the five fires -over a two day period- were not ebike fires. You’re making it sound like no ebike has ever caught fire at all. “none of the New York fires occurring April 20 and 21 involved an e-bike“

That article also says “Now, some fires certainly originate with e-bike batteries and some e-scooter batteries are probably safe.”

To your first point, there absolutely are unsafe charging practices, such as charging immediately after coming in from the cold without letting the battery warm up, which is one reason why these fires occur most often in winter.

I’m very pro ebike, but can’t just act like they don’t have these issues…
That whole incident was so misinformed.

CSAM scanning takes place on the cloud with all the major players. It only has hashes for the worst of the worst stuff out there.

What Apple (and others do) is allow the file to be scanned unencrypted on the server.

What the feature Apple wanted to add was scan the files on the device and flag anything that gets a match.

That file in question would be able to be decrypted on the server and checked by a human. For everything else it was encrypted in a way it cannot be looked at.

If you had icloud disabled it could do nothing.

The intent was to protect data, children and reduce the amount of processing done on the server end to analyse everything.

Everyone lost their mind yet it was clearly laid out in the papers Apple released on it.
It's not being privatized because it's extremely expensive to maintain and also it's politically impossible as several modules are Japanese or European owned and half the station is Russian and there's no propulsion on the USOS side.

As to not boosting it to a higher orbit, firstly that would require a tremendous amount of energy, more than any craft currently visiting it. So you'd need to custom build something for that purpose. They're already custom building something to deorbit it with less thrust requirements than you'd need to boost it upward. Secondly the station is slowly experiencing cracking and eventually will suffer a catastrophic debris strike or depressurization. This massive object would create a massive debris cloud and putting it in a high orbit would ensure it would last for thousands of years.
I think physical ergonomics is still way more important (so staggered splits with thumb cluster or even gloves)

So even with bad firmware you could move shift to a thumb key, which is better than V

But even with all the programmability you wouldn't be able to overcome the rsi-inducing design of the regular block when typing regular letters
Another rewrite? Hope it'll take off this time
fail to what, exactly?

so far it's failed to produce anything of actual value, but has been tremendously successful in consuming enormous quantities of electricity, suckers' money, and crypto-bro brain cells
I thought less about the data, as much as the metadata, direct and indirect.
I listened to the podcast "Kill List" where journalists got backend access to a hitman for hire website and do episodes featuring targeted individuals they notified.

What I got out of it is a garden variety abuser crosses the threshold to actually ordering a hit when the abuser felt they lost power over the abused.

A whistleblower about to publicly testify would 100% match up with that.
If you're interested in more Animal Crossing stuff, this video came out a few days ago diving into how the letters sent to villagers are scored. It uses some interesting rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbwWVvw-zI
lol yes that is the intention, i should have said "will never work as pretended"
Only recently. If anyone's grown up with a world only knowing this, it might be part of why it might not stand out as much.
You can use firecrawl.dev to get markdown content for any page you want. It’s open source and you can host it locally.
I expected average HN user to be aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
For the record, I live in a tiny village in New Mexico.

Also for the record, the overwhelming majority of the US population lives in metropolitan areas, not rural ones.
I like working in terminals. An IDE will never run in the terminal. Vim with the plugins I like run in my terminal.
A complaint from 2001 regarding the addition of the abstract stained-glass Windows of Cefalù in a Sicilian cathedral:

> In most countries, this kind of modification, based on artistic whim, ceased to be a serious social force by the 1980s. Even allowing for delayed reaction and effect in Sicily, it is surprising that such a proposal could have been taken very seriously in a place that boasts a great historical and artistic heritage.

> With these newest "additions," Cefalù Cathedral is being deprived of that opportunity. The scarlet beast has reared its ugly heads.

From: http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art41.htm

If you get a chance, I highly recommend seeing them! They left a mark on me personally that no stained glass had previously.

Some background and pictures:

https://experiencesicily.com/2014/01/11/the-norman-cathedral...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/2564316523
> I want to praise the author for fighting fire-with-fire.

On the contrary, I think these automated application games are most likely to land interviews with the companies doing LLM-based hiring and interviewing.

From what I’ve seen, the automated job application results are generally pretty bad. The few companies that get interviews are just bad at screening and interviewing, so even if you get in you’re going to be working with a lot of other people who self-selected into a company with a bad hiring process.

> HMs want to minimize their effort to 1% by happily renting LLM services which work 10% of the times and put up weird garbage(please record a 10min video to tell us why we should hire you,

I’m in a big Slack where people ask advice on hiring and interviewing. I can think of only one time someone asked about applying to a company asking for videos, and the advice was universally to skip that company.

I think these things happen very rarely, but angry internet culture never forgets and before long people act like these weird practices are happening everywhere when they’re definitely not.

I can’t even imagine what hiring manager would want to have to sit through 10 minute videos of each candidate. The whole thing doesn’t make sense and it’s definitely not common.
Not achieving an unachievable fools errand isn't a failure. No matter what anyone ever did in any country would have ever had any chance of containing COVID whatsoever. Other than China in day one...
Just hire them as contractors first. Give them a 2-3 month contract, if it doesn't work out, you just don't renew the contract.
>Social Security and Medicare are unpopular to cut, but its easily done, and a necessity to make significant cuts. I think the electorate has given a mandate to the govt to do this, do I expect they'll do it. (Trump campaigned on this, so its pretty much what people clearly want.)

No he didn't campaign on this. It's not easily done either. You're talking about people's families who paid into the system and were promised to be paid, and their kids certainly aren't going to be paying those bills when nobody is doing great financially speaking.

Maybe the government's promises can't be kept, but the politician that voluntarily casts the elderly into destitution or drastically increases taxes on workers is not going to last long.
Those were basically my exact application/interview/offer ratios when I last went through a job hunt. I can confirm it is basically a numbers game unless you have specific networked connections that can give referrals (and even then if the hiring manager doesn't like the look of your resume it doesn't really matter).
Why not have home/end near home row with a right thumb modifier instead?
Thank you for posting the apple blog post. As usual, it's really interesting research, and it's fascinating to see how they solve potentially gnarly privacy issues.
yet you say this like Apple or Google or Microsoft has never released an update to address a security vuln
Article link: https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
Not to mention the one most eroded by governments and private corporations in the name of "COVID"
On-site interviews. This is not ideal, but is the way. As long as you're willing to shell out on my flight and cover the expenses, I'll fly anywhere for an interview.
If your game has some artifacts in the display, nobody cares.

But if you're doing financial work, scientific work, or engineering work, the results matter. An awful lot of people used Excel.

BTW, telling a customer that a bug doesn't matter doesn't work out very well.
Suddenly your "friend" starts recommending Coke or talking about it. But your friend is the AI now because everyone is lonely and living in their Death Stranding cells.
Doesn't the idea of an "LSP for Neovim" mean the entire premise of LSP has failed? Wasn't the whole idea supposedly to put an end to editor-specific plugins in favor of one protocol spoken by all editors?
This comment is itself a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535251
I’m quite happy with my Perixx Periboard 335 replacing the Microsoft Ergo Sculpt. Standard layout, semi-split, tented, low (-ish) profile, mechanical switches, wired.

Took me a lot of searches to find something meeting my requirements
Some people will just never get out of Apple's Reality Distortion Field, willingly or unwillingly.
That's not the point of the outrage though (at least not for me). They enabled by default a feature that analyzes my pictures (which I never upload to iCloud) and sends information about them to their (and others') servers. That is a gross violation of privacy.

To be clear, I don't care about any encryption scheme they may be using, the gist is that they feel entitled to reach into their users' most private data (the photos they explicitly said they don't want to upload to iCloud) and "analyze" them.

This is the same as that time Microsoft enabled OneDrive "by mistake" and started slurping people's private documents and photos saved in default locations (arguably worse since no one takes pictures with their PC's webcams).
COSMIC as an OOTB desktop option! Awesome.

The ideas in moss ( the package manager ) seem interesting. I love everything being compiled with Clang as well.

I am not sure yet if Rust based coreutils is good or bad yet. I like the idea of Rust but implementation matters.

Still Glibc based. Given the Rust focus, I kind of wanted to see relibc instead.

I have been playing with Chimera Linux quite a bit and there is some overlap. They both use Clang as the system compiler of course though Chimera uses MUSL instead of Glibc. APK is also atomic I believe. I wish Chimera already offered COSMIC.
I dumped thousands of hours into Moo 2. Great game. I haven't touched it in years.
and there's absolutely nothing wrong with implementing a feature like this, but it should absolutely be opt-in

This feature is intended to spy on the user. Those kinds of features can't be opt-in. (And yeah, holomorophic "privacy preserving" encryption song-and-dance, I read about that when it came out, etc).
All politicians lie.

>The American public are smart. They are not easily duped. They understand that when he says Social Security and Medicare are bring left alone, he intends to cut them.

That's ridiculous. Your central premise seems to be that because Trump has lied before, we live in opposite land. Not only that but that the American public is 100% behind the opposite of what they were promised, which is also very bad for them and their families personally. Your rationale makes absolutely no sense.
I suggest de-Kindle-ing yourself. Kobo or anything else with Koreader is great.

I had contacts with people in the Kindle unit (I used to work at Amazon), and apparently the focus is on making as much profit as possible. So the Kindle ecosystem is probably going to be on the downwards spiral pretty soon.